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Populism, Progressivism and Imperialism 1890-1920 Populism 1890-1912 - is a mode of political communication that is centred around contrasts between the "common man" or "the people" and a real or imagined group of "privileged elites" Reasons for its em...
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7.4 The Progressives and the Presidents 1900-1920 Progressivism Muckrakers investigative journalists who wrote magazine articles and books about “bad things in society” (Roosevelt didn’t really like them, and gave them this nickname) Progressive Era (1890s–1920...
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Untitled Chapter 28 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901-1912 The progressive movement started at the beginning of the 20th Century. It sought to use the government to improve human welfa...
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Chapter 20 Review Progressive Era: A period between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the World War I when political reformers focused on four main goals: cleaning up politics, limiting the power of big business, reducing ...
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Chapter 17.5 Chapter 17.5 Wilson's New Freedom : study guide Attacking the Triple wall of PrivilegeThe tariffs,the banks and the trust.Two Key Antitrust Acts (1914) - (strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act) prohibits corporations...
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Roosevelt as President Progressive Movement: A. Main Goals 1. giving people more participation in government a. innovations 1. direct primary &nbs...
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The Effectiveness of Progressive Era Reformers Analyze the effectiveness of Progressive Era reformers in addressing problems of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In your answer, focus on reform efforts in two of the following areas: state and fede...
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Progressive Era - created from Mind Map Movements Environmentalism- industrialization and the expansion of railroads into the West, and the rise of large corporations led to the widespread destruction as well as increased pollution of land and water. Women'...
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History lecture 9/12 late 1800s Progressive movement: Wanted gov to regulate business. If they're going to have big business, government should regulate it. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle lead to a lot of reform for food quality and safety even though ...
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The Progressive Era - created from Mind Map WORKING CONDITIONS is the environment and existing circumstances in the work place BIG BUSINESS is a large scale of financial or commercial activity WOMEN'S RIGHTS are rights that promote equality between women and men
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Rights during the Progressive Era - created from Mind Map Women's rights Racial Discrimination 19th Amendment- The amendment prohibits the states and the federal govenrment from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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VOCAB Terms Chapter 16 muckrakers [muckraker: a journalist who wrote about social, environmental, and political problems Americans faced in the early 1900's] urbanization [urbanization: the growth of cities] infrastructure[infrastructure: t...
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chapter 17 notes By 1900, industrialization, urbanization, and immigration were contributing to great changes in America. progressives were trying to improve society by promoting social welfare, protecting the environment, and making ...
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Progressive Era - created from Mind Map Immigrant living conditions Big businesses Women's rights
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The Women's Right Movement The Women's Rights Movement Divisions Over Strategies & Tactics NAWSA (1890): Leader Carrie Chapman Catt, merge of NWSA and AWSA, pushed for federal amendment, focused on state and federal approaches, Tactics: met wit...
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The Progessive Era National Progessives Growing cities and changes in the workplace caused the Progressive movement in the state and city levels - Progressives' goals were to : 1. Reform Coruupt gov...
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Rights during the Progressive Era - created from Mind Map Women's rights Racial Discrimination 19th Amendment- The amendment prohibits the states and the federal govenrment from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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Progressive Era - created from Mind Map The 19th Amendment Working Conditions NAACP
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Working Conditions - created from Mind Map immigrant living conditions Working conditions Big business
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Movement in the early 1910-1920's Problem for many nativists: They feared that the immigrants would negatively transform American society negatively:Because of: Catholic Orthodox Jewish Wont be fully loyal Threat to jobs Communists Blamed for slums an...
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Untitled 5 Events:Spanish-American War just won"muckrakers"sweatshops (triangle factory)AFLIWW (anarcho-syndicalism)NAACP Spanish-American War:cause for it was over price of sugar...not worth it. Started hatred of capital...
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Chapter 17 VOCAB Words National American Woman Suffrage Association, or NAWSA, with Stanton as its first president. This group helped organize the suffrage movement into a powerful political force at the state and national levels. Tuskegee ...
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Conservation -TR believed that natural resources had to be protected for future generations of Americans. -TR was not against business use of resources, but he wanted to ensure that they were used wisely -TR set aside millions of ...
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Pure Food and Drugs -In 1906 The Pure Food and Drug act Protected the public from contaminated food and drugs. -The Pure food and drug act requires truth in labeling. -Any product in violation of federal standards could be seized and des...
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Meatpacking regulations. -Teddy Rosevelt appointed a commission to investigate meatpacking industry after reading The Jungle. -The discovery of unsafe foods led to the Meat Investigation Act (1906) -The meat investigation act established sani...
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